RE: Questions regarding LSB runtime packages

>I am running RHEL (Advanced Server 4.0) kernel- 2.6.9-5 on an i686 
>machine. I have downloaded the rpms for  Linux Standards Base (LSB) 
>testsuite runtime testsuite. But, I am unable to install them 
>because of 
>failed dependencies such as lsb-tet3-lite, lsb-python, lsb-core-ia32, 
>etc. I searched the website for these dependencies but without 
>success. 
>The FAQs and documentation have not been of much help. Where can I get 
>these packages? How do I install and execute the runtime test suite?

There are different answers for different items on this list.

1. lsb-tet3-lite is a new centralized version of the testcase
driver, instead of having one bundled into several different
tests.  For some unknown reason, the php script that presents
the download page is not "seeing" this package.

The alternative is to go directly to the ftp site:

http://ftp.freestandards.org/pub/lsb/test_suites/beta/binary/runtime/

hopefully somebody will get the script fixed soon

2. the lsb-python comes from the application battery section,
you should be able to see this one on the downloads page

3. the lsb-core-ia32 is something the platform has to provide
out of the package manager.  Unfortunately this is a chicken-and-egg
problem, prior to a platform being certified to a particular
LSB version it should not claim conformance to it by providing
this, and of course there are no LSB 3 certified platforms yet
as we haven't launched the program.

We do have a way around this via a "dummy" package which you can
grab from the download site (it's in pub/lsb/lsbdev/unreleased)
with the disclaimer that this is not in any way official support
from the distro on which you install it, just a temporary 
workaround - and needs to be uninstalled later should the
distro provide a full support package.


Hope this helps.... please feel free to ask more as needed.